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The definitive podcast about sailing. Professional sailors Andy Schell, Emma Garschagen, and August Sandberg interview sailors from around the world to discover what motivates, scares & inspires them. For over ten years and through 400+ episodes, our hosts have interviewed sailors like Dee Caffari, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Liz Clark, John Kretschmer, Kirsten Neuschafer & many, many more. We talk to boat builders, yacht designers, YouTube stars, performance racers, and many more. HOLD FAST!
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Why Apple TV+ was the right platform for 'Omnivore' with Ben Liebmann
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Does thoughtful storytelling have a place in today’s fast paced content world? Ben Liebmann, Executive Producer for Omnivore on Apple TV+, joins the show. More big questions tackled this week: Where is the future of streaming television going? What was the strategy for how chef Rene Redzepi would be deployed in Omnivore? Why was Omnivore not serial…
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Pam Wall & Peter Grimm // A Lifetime of Memories
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Friend of the podcast Pam Wall & our own Laura Parent do an ON THE WIND takeover this week to interview sailmaker and America's Cup sailor Peter Grimm! On an impromptu afternoon in Pam's living room, stories started flying and Pam said 'get the mics!' and this entertaining and charming episode was born! Big shout out to Pam & Laura for literally ru…
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Nikki Henderson // 59 North Offshore Racing
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The Caribbean 600 is one of the great offshore races and in February we launched the 59 North offshore racing program with this as our debut event. The Whole Point? To try to open the door of offshore racing wider so that more people like you can get involved. In this episode Nikki has a chat with Alex to reminisce on trials and tribulations of the…
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Andy Schell // 10 Years of 59 North Sailing
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Andy Schell. We know him, we love him, he's the founder of this very podcast! And of course the co-founder of 59 North Sailing. In this episode, Emma turns the interview table around on Andy to ask him about this past decade of 59 North Sailing. A lot has changed from the early inspirations of starting the business to where Andy sits now, in Sweden…
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Ian Herbert Jones, Part 2 // Ocean Globe Race
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Since his on the wind debut on episode 359 two years ago, Ian Herbert Jones has raced 28000 miles and rounded cape horn twice. In this episode, he tells the story of him joining the ocean globe race last minute at start in Southampton, and chasing the circumnavigation that escaped him during his golden globe. -- If you liked this conversation you'l…
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Ian Herbert Jones, Part 1 // Golden Globe Race
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Since his on the wind debut on episode 359 two years ago, Ian Herbert Jones has raced 28000 miles and rounded cape horn twice. In this episode, he tells the story of his remarkable golden globe race, from the last polishing of his boat at the start in France, to losing her to a storm in the south Atlantic. -- If you liked this conversation you'll L…
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Shaking up the world of podcasts with Cooler co-founder Mike Su
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Mike Su is our guest this week. He is the co-founder of Cooler, a new platform for podcasts that is looking to evolve a 20+ year old format. The big questions we tackle this week: What is it like to start your own content platform? How could podcasts evolve? Is there a way to avoid some of the pitfalls other digital content platforms are facing tod…
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Emma Garschagen // From Apprentice to Entrepreneur
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Our own Emma Garschagen, co-host of ON THE WIND, former ICEBEAR & FALKEN First Mate and now entrepreneur joins me on todays show to talk about her evolution as a sailor since she joined 59º North. Emma started with us as an apprentice, took over as Chief First Mate for Mia when she was pregnant with Axel and has now gone on to start her own busines…
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Love for animals + keen media instincts = profit with Nadav Ossendryver, founder of Latest Sightings
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Nadav Ossendryver is our guest this week. He is the founder of Latest Sightings, a wildlife content and community company. Latest Sightings has 5M subscribers on Youtube and generates billions of views on wildlife content each year across platforms. The big questions we tackle this week: How have CAPs (Content Algorithm Platforms) changed wildlife …
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Matt Rutherford // Shootin' the Shit Onboard MARIE THARPE
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Friend of the podcast and legendary sailor Matt Rutherford returns to the show to shoot the shit aboard his schooner MARIE THARPE. Matt hosted a small gathering of friends in Annapolis back in April aboard his boat, and we got warmed up by getting out the mics and mixing it up at the salon table down below on a rainy, chilly day. Matt was sipping t…
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How do you make content that pleases the algo gods? Is going viral like winning at blackjack? Grady Rains, Cheat Code founder, joins the show
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Grady Rains is our guest this week. He is a co-founder of Cheat Code, an agency that specializes in viral content. He also spent time at the NFL and was also a Fortnite influencer. The big questions we tackle this week: Is it possible to know what will go viral in advance? What are the ingredients to a powerful meme? How has grinding on content alg…
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Is social media as bad for you as cigarettes? Will AI help or destroy journalism? The state of news content with Forth co-founder Xana O'Neill
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Xana O'Neill is our guest this week. She is a co-founder of Forth, a new journalism-focused digital content platform, as well as the former head of news at Snapchat. The big questions we tackle this week: Why do so many people rely on social media for news? How did Forth create criteria to choose which people can create content on that platform? Ca…
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How would you create a league from scratch? Does OTE have a streaker plan? AI robot refs? Overtime CCO Marc Kohn joins the show
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Marc Kohn is our guest this week. He is the Chief Content Officer at Overtime, the innovative sports media company that has created hit original series like Hello Newmans while also launching entire leagues like Overtime Elite (OTE) to showcase young athletes. The big questions we tackle this week: What was it like creating a brand new sports leagu…
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Is Gen Z smarter than you? Will content algos destroy society? Skibidi Ohio Rizz? Rachel Richardson joins the show.
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Rachel Richardson is our guest this week. She is the founder of Beginning, Middle and End and the creator/author of the Highly Flammable newsletter. She has worked across media for many years including a long (and early) tenure at Snapchat. She is an expert in digital content and Gen Z. The big questions we tackle this week: What does "built like a…
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How *big* will Shaq's podcast play be? Is Inside The NBA Finished? What happened to @cash? Playmaker founder Brandon Harris joins the show.
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Brandon Harris is our guest this week. He founded Playmaker, a sprawling social media-driven content company that now produces Shaq's podcast "The Big Podcast". The big questions we tackle this week: What are the secrets to the emergence of Shaq's podcast? Since Brandon has insider access to Shaq, does he think Inside The NBA will survive the chang…
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Why is being independent awesome? What can't you say on MLBN? Scott Braun, host of Foul Territory, joins the show
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Scott Braun is our guest this week. He is the host of Foul Territory, a baseball talk show that is thriving as a content entity separate from MLB. The big questions we tackle this week: How is it different covering a big story when working for a league vs being independent? What is the relationship like between leagues and independent media compani…
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Is Snapchat "social media"? Will the trolls finally get on LinkedIn? A ChatGPT roast? Peter Conforti, Snap veteran and LinkedIn expert joins the show
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Peter Conforti is our guest this week. He is an early Snapchat employee who spent years working on their content team. He now runs his own company called Good Content which helps people succeed on LinkedIn. The big questions we tackle this week: Will Snapchat combine Stories and Spotlight? What is it like inside a meeting about Snap's content algor…
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Heather Thomas // MAIDEN Skipper & OGR Winner
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Skipper Heather Thomas recently won the inaugural Ocean Globe Race aboard the iconic yacht MAIDEN. The crew made history again by becoming the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race! At 27, Heather was the youngest skipper in this race and one of two female skippers. Emma and Heather talked about leadership, confidence, navigation and …
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What is Colin Cowherd's Secret Sauce? Sports Talk Veteran Sam Betesh Joins the Show
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The first episode of Play The Point! Sam Betesh is our guest this week. He has produced sports talk at the highest levels of media, including a long run producing The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and has a truckload of insights regarding how that type of content gets made. Other questions that get at least partially answered: How do you deal with impos…
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Kristoffer Appelquist // 'Över Atlanten' TV Show
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Comedian Kristoffer Appelquist returns to the podcast to talk about his first trans-Atlantic passage with the Swedish reality TV show 'Över Atlanten.' Now in it's 6th season, the show — which puts celebrities onboard a big Swan with Whitbread skipper Gunnar Kranz for an Atlantic crossing — has become a huge hit. Kristoffer, Mia and I talk about how…
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August Sandberg is the owner and skipper of our beloved Swan 48 ISBJØRN, which has sailed over 60,000 miles since the beginning of 59º North. August lives outside Bergen, Norway, where the boat is now based, and recently finished overseeing a second major refit, which we had done at Vindö Marin on the west coast of Sweden on the famed boatbuilding …
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Suzanne Heywood // Wavewalker: Breaking Free
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Suzanne Heywood was raised on a sailboat. What started as a three year circumnavigation with her family turned into a decade of living aboard, sailing, and struggling to get an education. Suzanne's book, 'Wavewalker,' tells the story of that voyage. In this episode, Emma and Suzanne talk about 'Wavewalker,' Suzanne's relationship to sailing now, an…
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Alex Laline // Clipper Round The World Skipper
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Alex Laline is a lifelong sailor and one of our full-time staff at 59º North. Growing up in a multinational family, he sailed dinghies as a kid in the UK, Spain and Indonesia, then got inspired to sail around the world when he saw an ad for the Clipper Round the World Race. As a teenager he saved all his money and joined Clipper as a paying crewmem…
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Lutz Kohne // Golden Globe Manager turned Racer
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Sailing was never a part of Lutz Kohne’s life growing up — it hit him square in the face as an adult, and completely changed his trajectory. He has since worked as a professional skipper, as Race Director for the OGR and the GGR, and he is now preparing to set sail himself, around the world, solo, retro and unassisted as a participant in the Golden…
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Henry Mickel & Bayley Richardson // Sailing REVELRY Home to Oz
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Henry Mickle & Bayley Richardson are self-described "Mates from the Land Down Under", cruising around the world in an old Beneteau. These two twenty-something friends made a pact, worked their asses off, saved their money, bought a boat and are living the dream — figuring it out as they go, but with knowledge and experience earned from working prof…
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Jojo Pickering // From the Sea to the Theatre & Back Again
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Jojo Pickering grew up with sailing as a central part of her life, vagabonding on the high seas with her family and sailing from Africa to the UK. As she got older, she spent more time ashore, starting a traveling theatre company with her husband and kids and bouncing around the UK, France and Spain. But the sea called her back — she recently compl…
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Liz Wardley // A Sailor Smashing Records in the Worlds Toughest Row
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Sailor, kitesurfer, and paddler Liz Wardley returns to the show to talk with Emma about her record-breaking row across the Atlantic. She completed the World's Toughest Row at the end of January after 44 days at sea. She beat the previous record by 15 days. Liz has competed many times in The Ocean Race and was last on the podcast in 2019 when she wa…
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Capt. Jennifer Kaye // Schooner WOODWIND & Trans-Atlantic on FALKEN
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Capt. Jen of Schooner WOODWIND returns to the podcast after having just sailed with Andy aboard FALKEN on the 2,100 mile passage across the Atlantic! Jen and Andy reflect on Jen's first big ocean crossing and what it was like to leave the wintry Chesapeake Bay for tropical Tradewind sailing. They also talk about challenges of running a small busine…
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Emily Caruso // Pro Sailor & Empathetic Leader
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Emily Caruso has spent 18 years and counting as a professional sailor, though only first learning about the sport in her late 20s. Growing up in the countryside in England, Emily had an epiphany one day during a weekend sailing excursion and hasn't looked back since. Andy & Emily sat down in person onboard FALKEN in Cape Verde to talk about her car…
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Jens Joachim Hiorth // Tall Ship Captain
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Jens Joachim Hiorth is the Captain of the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the largest and oldest tall ship in Norway. The ship recently completed a circumnaivation around the great capes. August joined the Captain onboard the ship for a conversation on the particulars of running such a large ship on the high seas. Website: https://lehmkuhl.no -- If you liked t…
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Bill Strassberg // The Viking Route
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Bill Strassberg literally wrote the book on the Viking Route, authoring the latest edition of the Cruising Club of America's guide to the far northern route across the Atlantic. Andy first got in touch with Bill when researching FALKEN's Greenland passage last summer and caught up with him late last year for the podcast. We talked about Bill's cust…
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Cosima Franchini // Yacht Captain & Business Owner
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Cosima grew up on the Puget Sound where her family nurtured a love of sailing and old classic boats. In college she worked on tall ships in the PNW but eventually she landed on the east coast where she found a community of friends who worked on private classic yachts. She spent her twenties pursuing positions and racing aboard big rig schooners and…
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Matt Steverson // The Duracell Project
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Ben Doerr sat down with Matt from The Duracell Project YouTube channel. Matt and his wife Janni are refitting Mike Plant's famous Open 60 "Duracell" into a comfortable cruising boat. Sitting in the cockpit of Duracell outside of Port Townsend, Matt and Ben discuss Matt's cruising and boatbuilding past and the many challenges of building the boat an…
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Capt. Jan Miles Returns // PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II
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Captain Jan Miles returns to the podcast! Andy first sat down with Jan onboard Maryland's flagship PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II tallship way back in 2015 for a fascinating interview tracing Jan's career at sea. We return to the Captain's Cabin onboard PRIDE for this second, meandering chat about seamanship, life on tallships, the leadership structure on t…
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Elliot Rappaport // Reading the Glass
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Elliot Rappaport has been a captain of sailing ships for the past three decades. He currently is a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy, where he lives nearby with his wife and their dog. Elliot also sailed as a captain for many miles with Sea Education Association, an organization that offers shipboard programs in ocean science and leadership …
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Mats Grimsæth // Explorer and Photographer
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Mats Grimsæth is a professional skipper, photographer and lecturer. He’s the youngest person to ever skipper a boat around the island of Spitsbergen on Svalbard, which is where he first met August. He has a great passion for the sea and for his fellow human beings. Having had a difficult time in his teenage years, he’s now using his considerable en…
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Wendy Mitman Clarke // SAIL Magazine Editor
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Wendy Mitman Clarke is the editor-in-chief at SAIL magazine and a long-time cruiser herself. I work with Wendy regularly as a columnist for SAIL, but had never actually sat down to talk about her own background. I caught up with her at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October, and from the Captain's Cabin onboard the Pride of Baltimore II, we discuss…
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Andy, Mia, Adam & Alex // FALKEN Season 1 Debrief
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Last week Mia, Bosun Adam Browne and Chief Mate Alex Laline and I sat down in the salon of FALKEN to reflect on what's been a busy, stressful and ultimately successful first season on our newly refit Farr 65. We've truly come a long way since one year ago this time, when we were scrambling to get the boat out of the shed, sea-trialled and out of th…
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Paul & Sheryl Shard // Distant Shores & the OG YouTubers
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Paul & Sheryl Shard of Distant Shores are truly the OG YouTubers, having filmed and produced videos of their sailing adventures for over 25 years. I met up with them in person at the Annapolis Sailboat Show a few weeks ago to talk about their transition from broadcast TV to YouTube and if that's changed their process. We also talked a lot about the…
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Jake Beattie // Everyday Heroes and the Race to Alaska
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In Jake Beattie’s words, the Race to Alaska "celebrates and illuminates life’s everyday heroes". Jake is one of those people. Aside from creating and organizing the Race to Alaska, he is also the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center located in Port Townsend, Washington: a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect people to …
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Jade & Ben // Sailing the Northwest Passage
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Ben and Jade Couturier recently completed the Northwest Passage on their Navy 44 Caprivi. They bought the boat in 2016, looking to make it their traveling home. Ben and Jade took Caprivi through an impressive rebuild while living aboard and working in the Florida Keys. In June 2022, they set sail, and have covered a lot of distance since. In May 20…
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Matt Rutherford // Greenland, Grass & Groundings
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#411: If you’ve been around this podcast for awhile, Matt Rutherford won’t be a stranger to you. Famous for being the first person to sail solo & non-stop around the Americas, he’s now the operator/co-director of the non-profit organization, OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT, and has his own, amazing podcast called SINGLE-HANDED SAILING. Andy met up with Matt…
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Mark Sinclair // Retro Racing around the World
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Mark Sinclair has sailed the seas his entire life, both professionally and as a hobby. He served for 20 years in the Royal Australian Navy, commanding three ships and navigating four, at the time when celestial was still the primary means of offshore navigation. He participated in both the 2018 and the 2022 Golden Globe Races on his Lello 34 COCONU…
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Andy & Mia // The Evolution of 59º North
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Andy & Mia sit down to talk about the past 5-6 years of 59º North and how it's evolved from a "lifestyle" business to an "actual" business, with investors, lots of staff and high stakes! They talk about the rollercoaster of emotions, the stress, the joys and the future (which is exciting—make sure to listen to the end!) -- If you liked this convers…
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Evgeniy “Ev” Goussev // Stowaway Escape from the USSR
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Evgeniy “Ev” Goussev was born in the far east of Russia, where he began sailing at the age of five, and was soon competing in a variety of classes while having a grand adventure on the sea with his father and friends. As the Soviet Union began to deteriorate and in-fighting became dangerous, his father decided to sail away, unsure if his eldest son…
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Peter Bruce // What Kind of Sailor Authors 'Heavy Weather Sailing'
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Peter Bruce is both a sailor and a writer of sailing. He most famously wrote the last four editions of the world-famous book HEAVY WEATHER SAILING having taken over from the original author Adlard Coles. A life-time of achievements on the water qualify him to write with such esteemed authority. He has represented Britain on seven occasions, won the…
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Will Sofrin // The Real-Life 'Master & Commander' Voyage
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Will Sofrin is among other things a sailor, shipwright and author of the new book ALL HANDS ON DECK. The story is a maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship replica 6,000 nautical miles from New England to Hollywood where the ship would become the HMS SURPRISE for the iconic film MASTER & …
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James Frederick // Solo to New Zealand & Sailing in Greenland
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James Frederick, aka 'James the Sailor Man' returns to the podcast four years after I first interviewed him. Back then, James was still prepping his Alberg 30 TRITEIA in LA...now, the boat is in New Zealand after James sailed her over 9,000 miles, solo, with many adventures along the way. We talked about his sudden divorce, losing his rudder mid-Pa…
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Nikki Henderson // Winning The Race To Alaska
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Nikki Henderson is no stranger to the 59N family. She’s a skipper, a podcaster, master of the Quarterdeck and a dear friend in the community. But when she signs off from these watches, she doesn’t quit. You likely know that she’s been on heaps of other seafaring adventures, including skippering the famed Whitbread machine, Maiden; the Clipper Round…
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